brpc 1.16.0

Apache bRPC 1.16.0 is a feature release that includes significant improvements in compatibility, performance, and functionality. This release adds support for new architectures, enhances debugging capabilities, improves RDMA support, and fixes several critical bugs.

Features

• Support protobuf v30+ compatibility (wrap absl::string_view as std::string) by @wasphin (#3187)
• Add RISC-V architecture support by @Dayuxiaoshui (#3125)
• Support tag for selective channel by @altman08 (#3189)
• Enable TLS key logging via SSLKEYLOGFILE environment variable by @koarz (#3173)
• Support more SSL verify modes by @koarz (#3141)
• Add Couchbase support for CRUD operations by @giriraj-singh-couchbase (#3138)
• Support naming bthread to help debug by @ZhengweiZhu (#3158)
• Support dynamic expansion of RDMA block pool by @chenBright (#3155)
• Make bthread stack trace signal number configurable by @ZhengweiZhu (#3124)
• Support shared mbvar by @chenBright (#3129)
• Add pthread CPU affinity support by @wenjiecn (#3122)
• RDMA polling mode enhancement (all messages run in new bthreads) by @yanglimingcn (#3117)
• Support higher performance bvar with babylon counter by @chenBright (#3116)
• Add support for checking all living bthreads by @ZhengweiZhu (#3096)

Bugfixes

• Fix port parsing validation in str2endpoint by @AnantShukla-Git-Hub (#3193)
• Fix C++23 compilation issue by @liyinsg (#3180)
• Fix SIGSEGV in read_proc_io during static initialization by @jesson1 (#3184)
• Fix SQ overflow bug by @chenBright (#3145)
• Fix gdb_bthread_stack bthread_begin error by @Searion (#3176)
• Fix redundant BeforeAdditionalRefReleased call by @chenBright (#3174)
• Add missed definition of RegisterFlagValidatorOrDie for uint32_t by @kisuke95 (#3171)
• Fix NsheadService::_status null pointer by @chenBright (#3162)
• Fix OpenSSL dynamic library link order by @apocelipes (#3159)
• Fix bvar’s bad return value by @songqing (#3151)
• Fix naming service unittest failure by @wwbmmm (#3153)
• Remove recursion in redis command parser by @howzi (#3136)
• Fix RDMA unit test by @chenBright (#3146)
• Fix deadlock in SetName (use SetNameSimple instead) by @chenBright (#3127)
• Fix SignalSyncs storage (only store failed ones) by @chenBright (#3128)
• Fix TaskTracer deadlocks due to ABA problem by @chenBright (#3115)

Enhancements

• Fix undefined behaviors in butil library by @BusyJay (#3135)

Contributors

We would like to thank all contributors who made this release possible:

@altman08, @AnantShukla-Git-Hub, @apocelipes, @BusyJay, @chenBright, @Dayuxiaoshui, @giriraj-singh-couchbase, @howzi, @jesson1, @kisuke95, @koarz, @liyinsg, @Searion, @serverglen, @songqing, @wasphin, @wenjiecn, @wwbmmm, @yanglimingcn, @ZhengweiZhu

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Source apache/brpc · 1.16.0 · 2026-01-25 · upstream release

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